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Bayou Belle

By: George Harmon Smith

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Book Description: The late Walt Disney once called Bayou Belle a tightly plotted novel. Come along for the thrilling adventures of Willie Potter and his friend Namie Nomie Crow, who happens to be the granddaughter of Willie’s Grandfather’s worst enemy. Willie faces various situations, such as struggling in school, witnessing the destruction that the paper mills have caused, finding love, and fighting to save what matters in his life. Author Bio: George Harmon Smith is the author of other children and Young Adult novels, such asBayou Boy and Wolf Dog. George has been a speaker at numerous schools and universities, sometimes speaking to hundreds, even thousands, of students at one time. He is a certified educational consultant, and helped write the guidelines for the revamping of the Arkansas School System. He is the husband of Willa Horne Smith. They have five children, two of whom have their father’s interest for writing.

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0595007562

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Bayou Boy and the Wolf Dog

By: George Harmon Smith

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Bayou Boy and the Wolf Dog

By: George Harmon Smith

One night after Wolf Boy deafeats an English Stafforshire, he escapes, then travels over a 400 miles, and finally reaches Willa Webber’s family just as they are moving to New Orleans. The moving van wrecks and Willa’s German Shepherd puppy is rescued by Old Howler, an old gray wolf, with aching dugs, because she has lost her pups to hunters. Old Howler takes the pup to her den in the swamp, nurses it, then makes kills for it, and trains him in wolf ways. Heart-broken, Willa comes to the swamp with her father and Aunt Maggy and begs Jean to look for her puppy. Jean , impressed by the girl, keeps his word, but it takes him a long time to find the animal. Old Howler, though cunning, is old, and no match for the younger male wolf and his mate. Finally, the two gray wolfs surprise Old Howler, and Wolf Boy arrives too late to save her. Jean discovers the dog and uses fresh meat to entice him to come home. Jean captures Wolf Boy in the smokehouse. People come from afar to see the wolf-dog. Brush Lockwood, a dog fighting thug, steals Wolf Boy, takes him far away, and fights him in several states. Wolf Boy is undefeated. But he hates his masterhome—Jean’s home. Willa comes up from New Orleans, but decides to leave Wolf Boy with Jean.

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0595138810

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9780595138814

The Voice of Turtle Ann

By: George Harmon Smith

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The Voice of Turtle Ann

By: George Harmon Smith

This fast paced novel begins at the Potter Inn on the Wire Road. It is a dangerous time, not only for fifteen year-old Jethro Potter but for his sixteen year old sister Vienna, the reconstruction era following the Civil War. It was a time when outlaws roamed the land, a time when the Blacks began realizing they were free, a time when the Ku Klux Klan was organized, grew larger and larger, and harassed both the blacks and whites if they gambled, or resorted to stealing, and that time thousands of people were making ready to pour into the Oklahoma Territory. Jethro's life is disrupted when the Silmon gangsters kill their parents, and hang Jim Lucky, their hired Black man, and outlaws steal all of the Potter horses, $500 in gold, kidnapp Vienna and Jethro, and set out for their hide-out in the Oklahoma Territory. Turtle Ann trails the outlaws all the way to Camden Town in Arkansas, enabling the Black Militia to follow them. The militia overtakes the outlaw band near Camden, and during the pitched battle, Jethro escapes, and walks in to Camden Town. He uses his father's good name and borrows enough money to hire a posse to go after the outlaws, and in a furious chase, the posse catches up with the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory.

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059520757X

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9780595207572

Old Crip

By: George Harmon Smith

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Old Crip

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Zane Haney has been forced to take care of the family in the bayou country because his father is in the Veteran’s hospital. Zane receives help from his grandfather, but his burden is heavy. On top of Zane’s daily problem of putting food on the table, after a tornado strikes near the Haney shack, a huge whooping crane hobbles out of the thicket into Mama Haney’s chicken yard, scaring Bubba, Zane’s younger brother, and Luci, his baby sister. Zane stops Bubba from shooting the whooper, which Mama later names Old Crip, because Zane had learned the whooper was almost extinct. Although Mama doesn’t like it one bit, since Zane is the breadwinner, she lets him keep the giant crane, doctor its leg and wing, and feed it. Zane overcomes many obstacles as he struggles to keep the family fed, knowing the doctors had given up on Papa Haney walking again—except Zane never gave up hope, and somehow he had a weird feeling that if he could get the whooper well enough to fly, his Papa, who had finally become crippled, would get well and walk. As it turned out, Papa walked before Old Crip flew. Papa had surprised himself when the Scruggs bunch threatened his family. Papa walked. Later, he helps Zane rescue Nanette, Zane’s girl friend from a murderer. At the end, when the little family sees Old Crip get up and fly toward the Texas Gulf Coast, Bubba asks, “What caused Old Crip to fly? ” “Instinct, I reckon,” Zane returned. “What is instinct, though?” Bubba asked. “It’s love.” Papa Haney said, knowing that was what enabled him to walk again.

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0595138837

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9780595138838

Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

By: George Harmon Smith

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Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

By: George Harmon Smith

Kimberly Kincaid, sixteen, had to move from the Delta town of Crossroads when her father died in a logging accident, but when Venus Bolton, all-state center on the Crossroads championship basketball team dies giving birth, Kimberly insists in going to her funeral even though she has no car. "Hot" Haliday, carefree, strong, and basically good, gladly takes her in his Z-300 to Sweet Lily Church. Kimberly, the point guard on the basketball team sees her many admirers. She is blessed not only with physical beauty, but with a kind heart, high morals, courage, and common sense. As Venus requested, Kimberly sang "Precious Memories." Afterwards, she confronts the father of Venus' baby boy and cows him down. Then, Kimberly and "Hot" visit Vicki, Kimberly's sister, who struggles to put food on the table for her and her child, born out of wedlock. "Hot" vows that he will return with Kimberly, and he will force some big changes in Crossroads.

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0595259464

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Book's by George Harmon Smith

Bayou Belle

Bayou Belle

Bayou Boy and the Wolf Dog

Bayou Boy and the Wolf Dog

The Voice of Turtle Ann

The Voice of Turtle Ann

Old Crip

Old Crip

Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

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